OPINION:
You would think that the medical profession, after having clearly taken a wrong turn a century ago, would repent and reform (“Physicians warn coronavirus can cause diabetes,” Web, June 23). You would be wrong. Diabetes is defined by an inability to metabolize carbohydrate. It is not an inability to metabolize fat or protein, and never has been. Up until insulin was discovered in the 1920s the standard of care was just carbohydrate restriction. If you do not eat it, you do not have a problem.
Now a lot more is known now about insulin, glucose metabolism and fat cells, which are really part of the endocrine system. If those cells become inflamed and do not respond to insulin, they cannot take up or even release energy substrates, and regulation of not only glucose but fat in the blood serum becomes impossible. High triglycerides go with high glucose.
The medical profession is a prime culprit in allowing the present sorry state of public health. Diabetics and prediabetics are easily diagnosed, and if the verdict is Type 2 diabetes, the condition is preventable and reversible with carbohydrate restriction.
COVID-19 is just one more example of how the U.S. population has been set up for poor health by the medical profession, and of course the food and pharmaceutical industry that profits from the whole public health debacle.
SAMUEL BURKEEN
Reston, Va.
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